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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

The action of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee in delaying to make a report upon
the nominations of Mr.. Lamar, Mr.. Villas
and Mr.. Dickinson until after the holiday
recess indicates that there is considerable
opposition to Mr. Lamar. As far as known
there is no opposition to either Mr.. Villas or
Mr.. Dickinson, but Mr. Lamar is still Sec
rotary of the Interior and Mr.. Villas Post
master General, and the nominations Of Mr..
Villas and Mr.. Dickinson cannot, therefore,
be very well acted upon until that of Mr..
Lamar is disposed of.
The subcommittee which has charge of
the nomination Mr. Lamar will, it
is thought, make an unfavorable re-
port If it does the Judiciary Com
mittee will probably recommend that
the nomination be not confirmed. In that
case it may become the subject of heated
partisan debate.
Leading Republicans in different parts Of
the country are working energetically to
prevent Mr.. Lamar from going on the Su-
preme bench. The effort that was made at
the convention of the Republican clubs in
New York last week to pass a resolution
hostile to him shows that his nomination
will not be confirmed without a sharp
struggle.
As matter of fact Mr.. Lamar is rather
popular with the Senators of both parties,
and the opposition to him on the part Of
the Republicans has nothing personal in it,
His ability is conceded, and his qualifca-
tons for the duties of a Supreme Court
Justice areunquestioned. The Republicans,
however, see a chance to make political
capital, and they are disposed to take ad-
vantage of it. They know that there is no
other Southern man who has more fully &C
cepted the results of the war than he has,
and that no other man, North OF South, is
more sincerely anxious to promote the well
fare of the whole country, but these things
count for little with them if by ignoring
them they can secure party advantage.
They propose to conduct the next national
campaign on bloody-shirt lines, and they
believe they can stir up good deal of sec
tional feeling by opposing Mr.. Lamar on
the ground that he was against the Union
in the war of secession.
There is no reason to doubt, however, that
Mr.. Lamar's nomination will be confirmed,
and it is probable that those Senators who
are leading the fight against it do not ex-
pect to defeat it. They know very well
that there are enough Republican Senators
who will vote forit to secure its confirma-
ton. They will have accomplished their
purpose, however, if they succeed in arous-
ing throughout the North feeling of hos
tilitY to the South.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGS Magnolia Encampment No. /, L.
o. o. F.. Golden Rule Lodge No. H. !. o. o. F.
Hibernan Society; Georgia Council No. ?. R.
and S. M.
SPECIAL NoTICEs-Santa Claus at Lindsay &
Morgans; Read, WILLY & Clarke; Dividend,
Brush Electric Light and Power Co. Election of
Directors, Augusta aud Savannah Railroad.
AUCTION SALE-The Norwegian Brig Amyl1os,
by j. Mclaughlin & Son.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULEs-General Transatlantic
Co.; Ocean Steamship Co; Baltimore Steamship
Co.
SANTA CIAUs-At Lindsay & Morgan.
CHRISTMAS AT THUNDERBoLT-M. j. Doyle.
For BEAUFORT, ETo.-Steamer Pope Catlin.
CHRISTMAS PIANO AND ORGAN SALE-L & B. S.
NJ. H.
FRESH NovELTIEs-L. & B. S. NJ. H.
GREAT BARGAINS IN HOLIDAY GooDs-Solo-
mons & Co.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-For Rent;
For Sale; Photography; Lost; Miscellaneous.
PRESERVES ETC.-At Cooper's
IMPORTED CoNFEcTIoNs-A. M. & c. w. West.
APPLEs-C. NJ Gilberh & Co.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Speaker Carlisle has announced that he
intends to appoint Mr.. Roger Q. Mills, of
Texas Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee. 1t was expected that Mr..
Mills would get the place, not because
he has any special qualifications for
it, but because the usages of the
committee entitle him to it. He will,
of course, be the leader of the majority of
the House, because the Craftsmanship of the
Ways and Means Committee carries with it
the leadership.
Mr. Mills is a man of considerable ability
and is popular not only with his party
but also with the opposition. He owes his
popularity to his unfailing good nature and
to his sterling integrity. He has pleasant
word for everybody, and would rather lose
his seat in Congress than do a mean, unjust
or unkind act. He has been in Congress
about fifteen years and he stands so well
with his constituents that he can remain
there the remainder of his life if he
wants to. Virginia is his native State, but
he has been in Texas so long that compare
lively few people III his State know that he
s not a native Texan.
He is not cut out for a leader of a parlia-
mentary body. He lacks judgment, tact
and caution. He talks when he ought to
listen, and he is not always sure what he is
going to say when he begins to talk. If he
doesn't seek good deal of advice from his
party associates he will get the majority
into good many tangles.
He is well informed on the subject of the
tariff, and is a thorough tariff reformer.
He will work faithfully for the passage of a
tariff reduction bill, but unless he displays
greater skill as parliamentary leader then
he has the reputation Of possessing he will
be in constant danger of obstructing his
own efforts
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
NO Mans Land"

The people living in that tract of land
lying south of Kansas and Colorado and be-
tween Indian Territory and New Mexico,
known as mo Mans Land" have sent a
delegate to Washington to ask Congress to
give them Territorial government
The story of mo Mans Land" and of the
customs of the people who live there form
one of the strangest that can be imagined.
In its uniqueness it rather excels that of the
Oneida Community" in New York, which
is not much more than an improved Utah.
'No Mans Land" gets its name from the
fact that in reality its land can be legally
owned by no one, because Congress has not
authorized its sala 1t is under the juris-
diction of no courts, and has no laws. By
errors in surveys, and by general neglect
and inadvertence, it has been cut off to it
self 1t was originally part of Texas, but
in 1850 was coded to the United States. 1t
contains 1867 800 acres, and until two years
ago was huge cattle run, but at that time
an excessively cold winter killed most of the
stock and the owners moved away One
year later 400 or 800 people had moved
there, and now it has 10000 inhabitants
If Congress grants its petition it will be
known as Cimarron Territory.
Within the past two years the people,
who are mostly farmers, and who have
squatter rights for not more than 100 acres
each, have built good log houses and frame
dwellings and established schools and
churches. The territory has been surveyed
into townships, the largest of which has 400
L. |. l.. l.
for imposing and collecting taxes, and the
people by common consent contribute so
much per month for the public support In
November, 1886, a mass meeting of citizens
provided for the election of Council as a
beginning of some shadow of govern
ment, and this Council enacted rules of
conduct which by general agreement are
enforced. There is, of course, no constitu-
ton; but the people took an oath to support
that of the United States The mail facili-
ties consist of two mails, carried about
eighty miles into the Territory, and the
people sometimes go a hundred miles to
get their letters. The land is rich, and pro-
duces good crops of wheat, corn, oats, ca
nary and millet, and cattle thrive all winter
without attention.
There are some things connected with this
strange phase of civilization that commend
themselves to lands having every facility
for good government. Peace is maintained,
there is no use for courts, the only crime
coming to notice being that of occupying
too much land, and this is settled by arbi-
tration; the people are able to protect
themselves against thefts from outside, and
debts are paid with commendable prompt
ness. Such condition of affairs would
seem to indicate that mo Mans Land" had
better let well enough alone, and not reach
out after the $4,000 people whom Mr.. O. d.
Chase, the Deleg tie, claims will settle there
if it is made a Territory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
Superstitious Sailors.

Sailors are not the only people who are
superstitious, but it is pretty safe to say
that the percentage of them who are super
stitious is larger than that of any other
class of people. On last Sunday night the
bark Scotland, from Liverpool for New
York, stranded on the Jersey coast near
Sea Girt. All on beard reached the shore
safely. The sailors were sure that some
misfortune was in store for them long be-
fore the vessel was wrecked. When about
800 miles off shore the crew was startled
one day, just as they were about to sit down
to dinner, by the sudden appearance of
seven crows. The crows flew through the
window, settled upon the table and began
to eat as if they were about starved.
There is no doubt that they were
very hungry as they consumed the greater
part of the food on the table. The sailors
refused to touch the food after the crows
appeared. They left the table at once, and,
from that day until the disaster, were silent
and gloomy. They were confident that
trouble would overtake them, and they were
not surprised when the bark stranded
They would have been surprised if they had
reached their harbor without an accident of
any kind.
There are those who will insist that the
appearance of the crows was a warning that
people, however, will not admit that there
was any connection between the crows and
the stranding of tire bark.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
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ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN.
Carlos Rivas Wants $4,000 Damages
from the City-His Story.

from the City-His Story.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Another alleged high handed act of Chicago
police officers was shown yesterday in a suit be-
gun in the Superior Court by Carlos Vetter-
Rivas against the city of Chicago to recover
$4,000 damages for false arrest. He says heis
a native of Caracas, Venezuela and is the son
OF the Venezuelan Consul at Stuttgart Germany.
For some time past he has been travelling in the
United States for pleasure and to learn the lam
guage, and came to Chicago in June last. On
Nov. 8, as he was going home with a friend,
John Van Plinsky, he was arrested on a charge
of being an Anarchist and attempting to
blow up the Chicago Avenue Police Sta
ton, or something af the kind. He was
examined before Justice Kersten Nov. and re-
manded TO Nov. H. but the next day, Nov. &, he
was brought up again before the Justice and
sent to the Bridewell for 256 days. While at the
station he says he was treated In brutal man.
ner. and threats were made by the police Off
GERS to fix or hang him. After being in the
Brideweli eighteen days he was released on or
der of the Mayor, it being ascertained his arrest
was mistake. Rivas says he never an An
archist, and only carried a revolver when he
was arrested on account of the public excite
ment at the time, and because he was attempt
ing to carry home young man who was some
what intoxicated. Exaggerated and sensational
accounts of his arrest. he says, have been print
ed in all the newspapers of the civilized world,
and he has consequently been damaged in his
reputation to the extent of $4,000
Capt. Setback had not heard of the suit until
informed of it by a reporter last evening. He
exclaimed: Another crank" and then went
on to say that he saw Rivas a short time ago,
and that the latter then said he was going home
in a few days. The Captain said that the night
of Nov. 8, during the excitement preceding the
hanging of the Anarchists. Rivas and Van
Plinsky were found proving around the alley
in the rear of the East Chicago Avenue Station.
Rivas had a revolver in his hand and Van
Plinsky a club. They were fined S75 each.
Rivas at that time laid the blame of the whole
affair on Van Plinsky, who had that day been
released from the county Jail and whose actions
were regarded with special suspicion by the
police
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
Edison the Wizard.

Mr.. Edison keeps 400 electric lights burning
all night about his house and grounds at Level
lyn PARK, where he himself frequently sits till
dawn experimenting in his favorite line. De-
spite the length of time which he has resided
there many of his neghbers still look upon him
with awe, the most superstitious
of them believing him in league
with beings who dwell in the tabled
sulphurous regions. One of his favorite tricks
that of turning out at night all the lights on
his circuit thus plunging the surrounding region
into darkness more appalling because of the
Contrasts never resorted to without causing
the blood OF the rrlstlcs to curdle in their veins
The most knowing of them always call him ''the
Wizard, " while Others bestow upon him the
less charitable title of "the Devil some, it is
asserted, being willing to swear that be has a
coyen foot
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

The Confederate flags episode is being re-
vived by the New York Tribune, which an
nounces what it alleges to be on pretty
good authority" that a number of flags
were shipped South from the War Depart.
ment last spring. On this doubtful state
ment the Tribune comments as follows:
at would be curious and interesting com
mentary upon the methods of the present
reform administration and its relation to
the solid South if it should finally appear
that the flags over which jefferson Davis
shed so many saurian tears during the At
lanta gloritication of treason were flags
which the soldiers of the Union captured in
battle, and which Northern copperheads
illegally and surreptitiously surrendered
after Grant and Logan were laid in North
ern graves" What a malignant and con.
scienceless sheet the Tribune is!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
The Value of q Whale.
From the San Francisco Eromin,

TFUHt Htt I1IH TTINCtSCO ELuHltNef.
The owners of the bark STEAMBOAT have
brought suit in the United States District Court
against the Pacific Steam Whaling ompany,
owner of the bark Wanderer to recover 81 00d
for the loss of a whale. Plaintiffs claim that
they had harpooned the whale, which thereupon
swan under field of ice and came to the sur
face a mile away, and that the crew of the
Wanderer then captured the same animal, and,
In order to give shadow of claim, substituted
their own harpoon for that Of defendant. Il is
claimed that for forty years it has been the
recognized custom that when a crew had once
haJpooned whale 1t was entitled to the full
ownership of the animal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Higgins having announced his intention
TO retire from the Office of appointment
Clerk of the Treasury Department on Jan.
], the Republican papers say that he is a
scape-goat, and that the President will pile
an immense load of political sins upon his
shoulders. The fact is, Higgins has been an
exceptionally good official, and everybody
about the Treasury Department likes him.
Since he has been connected with this adj
ministration his conduct has been such that
no civil service reformer could reasonably
find fault with 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

The fact that the bills for Mr.. Hendricks
funeral were cut down nearly half by the
Senate, has just been made public. AS the
amount finally paid out of the Senate con-
tingent fund was $4,000, there must have
been cause for pairing down some of the
charges. The casket was charged at 81 500.
but deduction of 500 was demanded
and obtained. Tho members of re-
cent conventions in New York looking to
reforms in funerals would do well to begin
their work by showing up the extravaganza
Of Congressional funerals.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
Maternal Instinct.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
wonder what my papa means
BY calling me Miss Fidget?
A silly goose
That has no use
A troublesome young midget
He says always Ought to laugh
Good little girls are jolly"
What would he do
If he boo-hooi
Had tored his little Dolly?
He says my Dolly's nothing but
A lot of rips and creases-s
That all combined
Could ever find
One-half the missing pieces.
And mamma told me if it was
Made out of iron and leather,
1t wouldn't stay
More than a day
Securely held together.
l know its nose and ears are gone,
1t has one leg left only,
A great big crack
Is in its back
And one eye looks so lonely.
It's face gets blacker every day,
It's never tidy, never;
And if | rub
And scOur and scrub
1t makes it worse than ever.
They want to know what makes me keep
The nasty thing about me.
Why, don't they see
It's fond of me?
And couldn't do without me?
Now, does it matter much to them
How sick and cross | may be?
I'm not afraid
Mamma would trade,
Ne for another baby.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
Mr.. comstock in Raltimore.
From tie Baltimore Herald Denny

From Hee Baltimore Herald denny
Mr.. Anthony Comstock lectured in Baltimore
recently in advocacy of the organization in this
city Of q Society for the Suppression of Vice.
1t was Aristotle who said that man was simply
a chicken picked of its feathers, and another
ancient philosopher observed that man was the
only animal whose natural ugliness was so hide
GUS that il had to be draped with clothing. Mr..
Conlstock probably partakes of this latter opin-
ion as he looks upon the nude in art as the
fecund source of untold depravity. The lee
turer showed himself to be acutely familiar
with the problem of social crime and told some
naked truths with fine effect
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
It Worked Up,

HFONI We BOStOn Herald.
Two little urchns coming from school were
overheard discussing the illness of the grand
father OF one of them, and its nature evidently
was source of great bewilderment. We'll.
the doctor says il is salt on the brain said the
bigger child. "Noyn in tone of wonderment
IRON the other. Why, how'd it get thereyn
'Oh, don't exactly know" Then in a tone Of
mysterious wisdom; He's fond OF salt on his
things, and guess it's worked up This Is a
new cause Of softening OF the brain.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Two columns of Saturdays Boston Her
old were devoted to advertising the appear
ance in Sundays issue of an article on
Slugger Sullivan's methods and achieve
ments, and the advertisement was given
the best position in the paper. Baked
beans and Sullivan are two subjects that
never fail to interest the Boston public.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Senator Evarts is at it again. During the
Grant-Cook campaign in New York he re-
peatedly expressed his admiration for the
Republican party, referring to it as the
'party of action and ideas" The other day
he pointed with pride" to its achievements.
1t is natural that men should be partial to
their party and glory in its achievements
The Republican party has no doubt achieved
in the past some feats of which it may be
proud, but it has also been the means of &C
complishing some ends to which Senator
Evarts ought to point with anything but
pride. If it was ever great party, its
greatness has departed, and the country
looks to the Democracy now for wise legis-
lation and honest government.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Ex-Gov. st. John made speech in New
York the other night, in which he attacked
Mr.. Blaine, whisky drinking and tobacco
chewing. He did not mention cigarette
smoking, but probably the three evils re-
ferred to were enough to consume his time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Henry George now and then says some
thing that is more generally appreciated
than his land theory At meeting the
other night he declared that Mr.. Blaine
was doing good work by advocating pro-
lection, because he showed its absurdity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Col. Ingersoll has delivered another fu-
neral GRAFTON. IL reads like the others, be-
ginning with, ave again stand in the
shadow of the great mystery-a mystery
that has never yet been solved" The de-
ceased was u woman, and believer in In
gersoll's theories. That men should follow
this brilliant but erratic person is bad
enough, but that women should accept his
false doctrines is inexplicable.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

The custom of tipping walters is receiving
the attention of the Boston papers, which
are giving it some heavy and scholarly
hicks, but it is safe to say that the Boston
press will be unable to break up the custom
At the same time they are ON the right
lire
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
How Did the Republicans Voter

From the Philadelphia Press (Rep)
1.-THE party in power, responsible for all legis-
lation while in power" is good Democratic doc
trine of few years back, which fixes the res
possibility for the failure to reduce federal tax
alton year ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21

Mr.. Henry George has so far recovered
from his recent dependency as to deliver
an address in which he vigorously defends
the Anti-Poverty Society. He must have
succeeded in getting away with the money
of the Widow Hutchins, whose departed
husband was led to believe that he ought to
aid in promoting Henry Georges theories.